Facebook: The Inside Story
Facilitated by Steven Levy
This event already happened:
Sunday, November 15, 2020
4:00PM - 5:00PM
Location: Virtual Event via Zoom
In his sophomore year of college, Mark Zuckerberg created a simple website to serve as a campus social network. The site caught on like wildfire, and Facebook has grown into a tech giant, the largest social media platform and one of the most gargantuan companies in the world. And in light of recent controversies surrounding election-influencing “fake news” accounts, the handling of its users’ personal data, and growing discontent with the actions of its founder and CEO, never has the company been more central to the national conversation. Renowned tech writer Steven Levy had unprecedented access to Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg for three years. In his new book, he delivers the definitive history of Facebook. Based on hundreds of interviews inside and outside the company, Levy’s sweeping narrative digs deep into the whole story of the company that has changed the world and reaped the consequences.
Steven Levy is Wired’s editor at large. The Washington Post has called him “America’s premier technology journalist.” His previous positions include founder of Backchannel and chief technology writer and senior editor for Newsweek. Levy has written seven previous books and his work has appeared in Rolling Stone, Harper’s Magazine, Macworld, The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, The New Yorker, and Premiere. Levy has also won several awards during his thirty-plus years of writing about technology, including for his book Hackers, which PC Magazine named the best sci-tech book written in the last twenty years; and for Crypto, which won the grand e-book prize at the 2001 Frankfurt Book Fair.
Please order “Facebook: The Inside Story” at either:
Flashlight Books in Walnut Creek
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Rakestraw Books
Click to Order: https://www.rakestrawbooks.com/book/9780735213159
Prepaid orders are available for curbside pickup 11am-3pm, Monday through Saturday. If you’re local, they can also deliver your order as soon as possible.
Sponsored by: Congregation B’nai Shalom, CCJCC and The Jewish Book Council